> Apart from the feeling of power it grants those who are responsible for
> allocating it.
while waiting for a big make, for some reason i decided i wanted to know
if usenet was still there, having left it over a decade ago. so i go to
google to try and find it. lo and behold, google itself has some massive
archive of usenet. so i decide to look at the old news.groups, to see
what life is like these days. the very first article had the
Subject: Re: Corrupt totalitarian usenet "rulers" and their tricks
i left with the warm happy feeling that usenet is still very much alive
and has probably not changed much in some years.
randy